Congratulations Brent Chapman 2012 B.A.S.S. AOY

B.A.S.S.

Brent sealed the deal today.   Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.   Way to go Brent!!!

Chapman IS Champion!

James Overstreet/B.A.S.S.

Today Brent Chapman caught a single 6-5  largemouth to win to the Central Open at Lake Lewisville.  Hopefully it will give him some momentum for the Classic.  We would love to see Brent win it all this year!

It's been 7 years since Brent won with B.A.S.S.

Bass Pundit Endorsements for B.A.S.S. All-Star Voting

Region 1: Shaw Grigsby- Truth be told I have never been a real Shaw Grigsby guy. He gets the endorsement for 2 reasons. 1. I used his jersey as a template for my own. 2. The contrast between how Shaw handled sharing water with Grant Goldbeck vs how Denny Brauer mishandled sharing water with JVD.

Region 2: Brent Chapman- Brent is a bass fishing blogger who I follow. Brent is a great guy who struggled some this season, but finished strong and made his way back to the Classic. Don "DB" Barone wrote an article titled "How fragile, we..." at the end of the year that featured Brent and his wife Bobbi (who also blogs) that chronicled the stress of a season not going well. Brent is guy who has paid his dues and is a true professional.

Region 3: David Walker- I not exactly sure why but David Walker is one of my favorite Pro anglers. He has a blog at his website and also does with The Evinrude Blog. It was cool see Dave pick up his first win ever this season and make his goal of getting back to Classic, which is the reason he left FLW.
Updated- I just found out from facebook that David is actually a Northern Boy originally from Michigan. Just another reason to like him.

Region 4: Brandon Palaniuk- This Federation Angler from Idaho turned Elite Series Pro living his dream has been fun to watch. He had a great season, that in some ways was overshadowed because this years crop of veteran rookies was so strong. He would have been Rookie of the Year last year going away. It's highly impressive that Brandon made it back to the Classic, especially having to deal with a couple of difficult circumstances that had to be overcome (The manatee zone incident and the selfish Denny Brauer). I hope Brandon makes it in the sport and he is going to need sponsors for next year, making it as an All-Star would be huge for Brandon in terms of selling himself to potential sponsors.

All 4 of these guys are on Facebook.

So go to All-Star Week Voting Page and vote for these guys. You could win a boat.

Brent Chapman Is A Happy Camper (at least right now)

Chompin at the Bit!

He says a long run. I hope he doesn't run into fog problems because he is going on my fantasy team.

Brent Chapman Is A Lucky Man

Bobbi Chapman is featured at AdvancedAngler.com in their Beyond the Pond article.

Go read it!

Lefebre Family Blog

"ON TOUR" with Dave & Anne looks to be a blogging project of FLW Pro Dave Lefebre and his family. My guess is that it will be something along the lines of the blog Chapman Fishing-Camping Fun! which is done by Elite Series Pro Brent Chapman and his wife Bobbi. If so the blog won't be about fishing, but life on the road as a touring bass fishing Pro's family.

Here is the blogs description:
Join the Lefebre family as they travel the country following the FLW Tournament Trail. Hear personal stories from the road and on location in this joint diary of their lives "On Tour", presented by Chevrolet.

Hopefully it will be an interesting blog to follow.

Bass Blogging: Ross Returns & Victoria is Pissed

Ross of Ross Talks Fishing, a Minnesocold bass fishing blog, is back to posting. One of his first efforts is a take down of Skeet Reese and in another posts he builds up Byron the Bachelor and Clear Lake Elite Series Champ. Welcome back to blogging Ross.

Victoria Taber fished as a Co-Angler at a WON Bass tournament on Lake Havasu. Day 1 went well, However her Day 2 partner "Egg Salad" left something to be desired.

For the tournament Victoria came in 83rd out of 90 and Tami Curtis came in 30th. As far as I can gather it's a Pro/Co shared weight format. Hopefully Tami will be blogging about this one soon. This particular tournament was won on the Pro side by Western bass fishing legend Mike Folkestad who will also probably be blogging about the tournament soon.

Brent Chapman has blogged his Clear Lake Elite Series experience...

Brent Chapman the Invisible 5th Man

Elite Series Bass Pro Brent Chapman entered the final day of the 2010 Bassmasters Classic in 9th Place. But by for the final weigh-in Brent was in the Super 6 and he ended up passing Mike Iaconelli and finishing in 5th. Despite having the 3rd best bag of the final day and fishing in the same general location in Beeswax Creek as the other top finishers Brent Chapman did not get a second of TV air time for the final day; I don't think he was even mentioned to be honest. Ike who started the day in 4th and finished in 6th got plenty of air time. Personally I think the fact that he got no TV air time on the final day is ridiculous.

Brent has a blog and this is what he had to say about this issue:

In talking with some of you, I found out how disappointed you were in my lack of TV airtime. Believe me, I was disappointed too. I didn’t expect to get a ton of TV time with a fifth place finish, but I was hoping for some, especially for my sponsor’s sake! Please, if any of you feel strongly enough about this, send a comment to Bassmaster’s Customer Service, the e-mail is customerservice@bassmater.com .

I encourage everyone who reads this to shoot off and email and voice an opinion.

2010 Bassmaster Classic Day Final Take 2

11:30AM Just got on computer have yet to check anything. First stop BASS live blog. I read the bottom first, to keep things and suspense in order.

11:42PM I'll be dipped and fried the 8:57AM blog talks about KVD catching a pickeral. I could have sworn last night watching the Classic coverage on TV that Brent Chapman had caught a toothy critter, not a bass. Maybe I wasn't seeing things. I hope the disappointment of catching a non-bass makes the TV show.

11:52AM Straight up from the Live Blog:

10:55AM ET You want to get a good idea of how much these guys respect each other?

Todd Faircloth and Brent Chapman have been sharing water in Beeswax Creek all week. Chapman has been having a good morning. He has a limit. Meanwhile Faircloth only has two.

According to Robbins, Chapman just idled over to Faircloth and handed him a bait, assumedly the one or one like he's been using.

Faircloth is tying that bait on.

Chapman is a great guy, always has been. But he may be ready to see some with a shot at slaying the dragon succeed.


Brent Chapman and his wife are also bass fishing bloggers. But I'm not going to link to that now.

12:00PM Ruh Row!!!

11:15AM ET We didn't get to talk to Jason Quinn this morning. But we've just learned that he is dealing with food poisoning. He was up all night hugging the porcelain.

He's still out there today, casting away and probably feeling pretty terrible at the moment.


12:05PM I'm all updated on the 2010 Bassmaster Classic live blog Looks like Russ Lane is going to make a serious run, KVD will add drama, and Kriet and Faircloth need to catch more fish.

12:15PM If Bass Trakk is correct and KVD has 15lbs today than Ike is in serious trouble.

Kriet bags his limit, needs serious upgrading.

12:20PM Just got a call from my 38 year old brother Steve who was proud to say that he finished his first marathon today (1st one he ever tried). WAY TO GET IT DONE STEVE!!! I am sure I will blog more on this later today.

12:30PM On to watching the days Bass Cam video's

I see that Todd Faircloth has a limit but it's tiny fish.

The thing about these Bass Cam video's is that I have to pause them so they can load up, but if when I do that a new video is posted then the one I'm loading gets preempted by the new one. Hate that!

12:45PM From Bass Cam video Chris Lane says he's going to confront some guys who are fishing in Beeswax Creek, where most of the top guys are. Personally I think that is a bogus move, if people want to fish they have as much right to the water as the Pro's. Now I wouldn't fish on Pro's water in the BMC, but this is fishing and these kind of things can and do happen.

12:55PM As much as I love KVD, I'm rooting for the "Squirrel" in this one Jeff Kriet. Now if it was Ike and KVD than I'd be all KVD.

1:00PM On Bass Cam Russ Lane keeps talking about the head games that must be going on in Beeswax because of the crowd cheers when a fish is caught. Yeah if your not catching em' that would play with your head.

1:10PM These Bass Cam video's are basically short video blogs, worth the look if you are not watching them. Tip- They are in order from new to old, start with old and work your way back.

1:15PM Mercer Twit Vid Kevin VanDam Catching a giant on the final day of the Bassmaster Classic So good this one gets an embed.



1:30PM Mercer with an earlier Twit Vid than the Van Dam one. Why wasn't Mercer on the water the first two days?

1:35PM Rich's Bassin' Blog Mid-Day Report...

1:45PM Another Mercer Twit Vid from earlier in the day... He's on the water. Money quote: "I'm a roving reporter with nothing to report."

1:55PM Just finished up the Bass Cam on the water video's. On the very last one photographer James Overstreet reported that Kriet has more than what Bass Trakk is showing, but he is probably still short of Van Dam.

Just got to a Mercer Twit Vid of Mercer "in the bush," this one is kind of funny for once.

2:02PM Mercer was a Twit Vid fool this morning KVD Fish # 1 (Big One) and Bassmaster Classic Take Off

2:10PM Another Twit Vid from early this morning Bassmaster Classic Convoy

Note- The reason why the Twit Vids go from latest to earliest so far is because I am finding them as a go down my Facebook Newsfeed.

1:20PM It kind of looks like the on the water Bass Cam commentary is done for the day. BOOOOOO!

2:30PM Just read Ike's Bass Insider blog from last night and he sounded kind of beat down. Had 5 bites, landed 4 and that missed fish is obviously a huge loss in Ike's mind. Doesn't sound confident at all about nailing a 20lb sack.

2:45PM Going to take a break, get the dogs out and eat something.

3:15PM I'm back and if the Bass Live Blog and Bass Trakk are to be believed it looks like KVD blew this thing out. We know Bass Trakk can be wrong, but 7 plus pounds wrong is stretching the margin of error to it's outer limit.

3:40PM Alton's Angle blog No regrets

Skeets Beat blog Thank you everyone

4:20PM Once again today I will liveblog the leaderboard unless Rich Lindgren comes through and live blogs 360 at the Bassin blog.

I think I'm going to blog in draft KVD as the winner, so I am ready the instant it is official.

2010 Bassmaster Classic Day Final

"My son thinks the outdoor show is like trick-or-treating for lures"

Bobbi Chapman, wife of Brent, on her blog Chapman Fishing---Camping Fun! Check it out!!!

Non Classic Note- Tyler Brinks of TBrinksfishing.com blog finished 15th and checked at the BFL Gator Division Tournament on the Kissimmee Chain. Read about it at the link.

AnglersChannel.com Blog has Classic Coverage

Check it out... Good Stuff!

Skeet's Beat- No more practice...

Skeet Classic Video Blog #3...
(doesn't sound like Skeet is on much)

Alton's Angle- One more Day...

Update- John Murray Blog...

Chapman Fishing---Camping Fun... See some pictures of the Chapmans with the Howell's, Jones', Marten's and ??? Maybe Faircloth's.

"Cautiously Optimistic" Brent Chapman

Brent Chapman Blogging: "Cautiously Optimistic"

Classic Practice

Skeet- Still deciding...

Alton Jones- The final practice (Good read)

Classic Blogger Franchise

It seems that Brent Chapman and his wife Bobbi are making a go of it on the blogosphere.

Brent's Blog- Was the intial offering and apparently didn't make it past last years Bassmasters Classic.

For this year the Chapman's have started two blogs with Google Blogger.

AWG Outdoors- This one appears to be Brent's blog and is going to be centered around his fishing.

Chapman Fishing---Camping Fun- Looks like it will be a blog by Brent's wife Bobbi and will chronicle life on the road as a touring Bass Profesional family.

Check out these blogs and get yourself included as a "Follower" so you know when they update their blog.

Update: Another Elite Pro and Classic fisherman with a new blog for this season is:
John Murray

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